God called into being what did not exist. He animates creatures, in Him we have life. There is perfect joy and contentment reflected in the image of Paradise. Why then, in the first reading, does Isaiah speak about a new heavens and new earth when supposedly there is already perfect joy and contentment? What happened to the first creation that there is a need to recreate it?
Creation observed all the natural order of nature. It was man that destroyed this order. Man wanted to be God. In our pride we decide to run our own lives according to our concupiscence and reason but not according to the plan of God. Consequently we experienced division, destruction, selfishness. Yet we know that we are supposed to be spiritual. “I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the very things I hate. For the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not.” (Rom 7: 15.18) That is why we need Jesus Christ to restore the original order in our lives and to reintroduce us again to the joy of Eden. This interior renewal is made through the sacrament of Baptism.
We become new people now capable of obeying God our Creator and Father. The healing of the royal official’s son in the gospel is our image. We are restored to life thanks to God and the love of Christ.
